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2/18/2026 at 1:09:18 AM

YouTube Is Down

 https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/

by Vaslo

2/18/2026 at 1:26:07 AM

I'm already, seriously, looking forward to the post-mortem. It kind of sucks when things break, but it is also really interesting to hear the gritty details. Hopefully they don't disappoint? Odds that is AI related?

by gilbetron

2/18/2026 at 2:12:32 AM

Same here... Having been on both sides of it, I much rather prefer reading about a post-mortem than writing one

by neo_doom

2/18/2026 at 6:26:44 AM

Same, I don't think I've ever noticed YouTube being down. (I'm sure it's been down in the past 10 years, I just haven't noticed it)

by upmind

2/18/2026 at 2:57:40 AM

You think they'll release a post mortem publically?

by andrewinardeer

2/18/2026 at 1:42:33 AM

Man... updated mozilla,toyed with my ad blocker, now updating the os. Never crossed my mind this was a 'them' problem.

by heelix

2/18/2026 at 12:17:25 PM

You did too much lmaoo

by eggmutton

2/18/2026 at 1:53:35 AM

You can search and watch videos directly with no issue, but main feed and suggestions on the side of videos are not appearing.

Really goes to show how much I depend on the algorithmic recommendations, I have no idea what to watch having to search manually. Usually my feed always has something that piques my interest.

edit: back up

by dysoco

2/18/2026 at 8:35:42 AM

If you are subscribed to channels, I really recommend using Subscriptions instead of home page. Otherwise, you may miss videos from your favorite creators just because YT decided so.

by KORraN

2/18/2026 at 2:22:49 AM

Search on YouTube has been broken for at least 4 to 5 years.

Some time back it used to find stuff. Now its just recommends shorts.

by kingstnap

2/18/2026 at 1:19:05 AM

https://status.pki.goog/

by rolph

2/18/2026 at 1:33:15 AM

This is certificate issuance being down?

by ls612

2/18/2026 at 1:33:27 AM

And started over five hours ago.

by LoganDark

2/18/2026 at 1:16:59 AM

I'm currently sitting next to my son who is watching a Mark Rober video on youtube.

But yeah, neither the web site or the app are loading anything right now. But I guess a stream in progress in unaffected.

by jayknight

2/18/2026 at 3:11:27 AM

I mistakenly thought that YouTube hit a compatibility problem with my Firefox browser. The only breakage I could see was that the right sidebar of related/recommended videos disappeared. But I was watching several videos consecutively just fine. (I obtained video links from recent bookmarks, plus manually queued URLs of next videos to watch.)

by nayuki

2/18/2026 at 2:06:47 AM

I think it is an authorization issue? Thought it might be on my end... glad to have found this.

by sharkytowers

2/18/2026 at 1:54:01 AM

Interesting outage, I can play videos added to my playlists, but homepage is empty.

by seatac76

2/18/2026 at 1:41:05 AM

Videos are streaming but the quality seems to be low; on a few videos I checked, format 136 which is supposed to be 1080p is currently actually only 360p. Possibly a bandwidth problem.

by userbinator

2/18/2026 at 1:54:39 AM

Interesting. I wonder what LeetCode hard they'll use to investigate and fix this issue.

by Freedom2

2/18/2026 at 1:42:36 AM

I’m sure Claude will have it up and running in just a few minutes. No big deal.

by therobots927

2/18/2026 at 1:32:42 PM

Cannot trust those damn Americans during on call.

by ismailmaj

2/18/2026 at 2:19:36 AM

What happens if downdetector goes down? Who watches the watcher?

by 1970-01-01

2/18/2026 at 1:31:17 AM

Directly navigating to a channel works fine.

by dpbriggs

2/18/2026 at 1:45:34 AM

It appears to only be related to the front page. Other pages load fine going directly to the URL.

by pgrote

2/18/2026 at 1:19:06 AM

Well that’s one way to go to bed on time :)

by tmcz26

2/18/2026 at 1:32:25 AM

I can't sleep without something playing in the background.. Curse this habbit.

by bilekas

2/18/2026 at 2:44:05 AM

yt-dlp pulling down a handful of videos and playing them locally could help if using workstation or laptop then re-up them to phone if using a phone.

by Bender

2/18/2026 at 2:55:28 AM

Audiobooks?

by gordonhart

2/18/2026 at 2:08:42 AM

I discovered a particularly good genre for that:

Zero narration mechanical manufacturing videos. E.g. from some Japanese paperclip/thumbtack factory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVxjy5pnlPY

by lysace

2/18/2026 at 1:23:11 AM

I’ve been forcibly signed out from my Google account across all devices I think this may be their auth that went down.

by ls612

2/18/2026 at 1:11:01 AM

I’m able to reach videos via my history but not getting anything on the front page.

by Vaslo

2/18/2026 at 3:12:59 AM

The fattest of Tuesdays.

by bombcar

2/18/2026 at 1:54:44 AM

Watch this be a bug added by some AI agent.

by proc0

2/18/2026 at 1:50:10 AM

FCC is really trying hard to stop that Talarico video.

by kgwxd

2/18/2026 at 1:28:07 AM

The home feed of the website doesn't seem to be working for me, but individual channel pages are working, and videos are loading.

by AlienRobot

2/18/2026 at 1:32:19 AM

yeah same for me. just home page. they have a very big server driven UI response for a 5xx something went wrong try again page.

by d342

2/18/2026 at 1:35:01 AM

I concur. I can reach channel pages from my channel list on the home page even with the recommended videos not loading.

by mbilker

2/18/2026 at 1:13:09 AM

Now I have nothing

by chriscrisby

2/18/2026 at 1:27:50 AM

It is funny when your internet goes down (panic!)

by ge96

2/18/2026 at 1:17:35 AM

[dead]

by Manojbhat09

2/18/2026 at 1:11:00 AM

what ever will i do /s

the upside this is a great opportunity to do an early bed time

by arnorhs

2/18/2026 at 1:31:57 AM

[dead]

by knowitnone3